The Fresno Handmade Bazaar sponsored by The Soulflower Group is Saturday, FEB 25th 2012 from 12-5pm! Fresno peeps, please share this on your pages. It's going to be the hippest arts and craft show Fresno has ever seen!

Come see handmade crafts, get a handmade drink, and listen to some handpicked tunes by a variety of Soulflower DJs. They'll be crafty demos, Live DJs, door prizes, swag bags, and much more.

This is at Fulton 55; unfortunately those under 21 will not be admitted.

I made these fun little earrings (actually, they aren't all that little). Anyway, I created rosettes and then embellished them with rhinestones, crystals, etc.

Here's how you make them...

1. Cut a 1" wide x 12" long strip of canvas.2. Apply Tacky Glue to top of strip and fold over.3. Once folded, apply another bead of glue, then fold over.4. Start twisting the canvas around the glued center.5. As you twist, glue as you wrap the canvas around. After a couple of twirls around, you will see the rosette starting to take shape.6. Leave a tail of about an inch when you get close to the end of the canvas strip. Glue the tail in place at the back and secure. Let dry.7. Spray the rosette with the Fabric Spray Paint. Just a couple pumps of each color will saturate the rose with color. 8. Flip over the rosette and spray the back as well. Also cut and spray 2 small cut out canvas circles.9. Using Fabric Fusion, glue the embellishments into place as desired.10. Using your pliers, create a double loop with your headpin (it will resemble an eight). Place under the cutout circle and glue in place with Fabric Fusion. Let dry.11. Open earring wire and attach to looped headpin. And you're finished!

I LOVE fonts, bold&graphic art, stripes, and pops of color. I wanted to create a project using these two plaques that I purchased at Target for $1.28 each a few months back. They weren't my style, but I knew I could make other cool wall art of them. They are a hard/faux wood surface and you can find them just about anywhere. If you can't find them at Target, I suggest looking at a TJ Maxx, Ross, or Marshalls. They have a lot of cheap surfaces that you can modify in different shapes and sizes.

Here's supplies & instructions on how to make your own fontalicious wall art!

1. Spray paint plaque the same consistent color (I chose black) so that it covers image and leaves you with a clean slate for your project.

2. Measure your plaque size and make a document size in your Photoshop or Illustrator document that size. If you are doing this in Photoshop, make sure to set it up to be 300 dpi.

3. Find a font you like (I suggest a Sans Serif, it is easier and more linear looking) and type your letter...as you can see, I chose my initials. Duplicate that letter and flip upside down and place next to it, spacing apart as you desire. Use your align and spacing tools that come with your program if you need to. Keep copying and pasting these two letters to fill your document size. It's ok if the fonts go off the page, I actually thought it looked stronger being cropped this way.

4. Pick one of the letters out and colorize it in your desired color. Print out your creation, making sure to either make a faint outline around the document page or adding crop marks to your printing settings. Let dry

5. Cut paper according to outline/crop marks. Spray back of print with Tacky Spray. Position and smooth out onto plaque. Now it's ready for hanging.

I've been doing a little graffiti crafting of my own and tonight it is this pretty graffiti rose! It didn't turn out exactly like I wanted, but I still think it is pretty fab. And it is sooooo easy. Here's how you make it!

Instructions:1. Cut stem from fake white rose.2. Place letter stickers randomly all over white rose.3. Spray Tulip® Fabric Sprays randomly over entire rose. Don't saturate entire rose. Leave some areas white. Let dry.4. Remove letters from rose. Mine honestly didn't stick as well as I would have hoped, so the color saturated into most of my stickers. Boo! But it still looks pretty.5. Edge petals with black paint tagger. Let dry. It's imperfect, just have fun playing!6. Cut two strips of tulle (approx. 9" long x 2" wide). Fold them in half and tie into a knot. Using Tacky Glue, glue to back of rose. Cut and glue black leaves onto back as well.7. Cut out a 2.5" diameter circle from felt. Glue over top of knotted tulle and press into place. Let dry.8. Glue pin back/barrette onto felt and let dry.

My friend Silvia and I made this graffiti pillow together the other day and it was a lot of fun.

It was created in only like 10 minutes. She did make the pillow beforehand on the sewing machine, and that only took like 10 minutes too. It was using an old pillow form and a large t-shirt we had around.

I added some graffiti effects to this $1 lantern I bought at Michaels. Basically, I used the new Fashion Graffiti products (the Taggers, Spray Cannon, Big Phat Marker and a cool bleeding heart stencil). They are all at Michaels right now and are real easy to use.

I like it cause it is a lot looser and more free than I am usually when I design a project. I think it turned out cool.

I wanted to make a cool statement ring and I have seen a lot online, but none that have totally caught my eye. When I sat down to create one, I thought I would do a ring with a modern looking pinwheel or bow. I quickly realized that wasn't going to happen with the materials at hand and I just began to play with some of my beads and findings on a little wooden disk. I laid out my findings and started to create a little collage and my statement ring started to come to life! It's super easy to make and it turned out looking really cool!

Instructions:1. On a flat surface lay out your wooden disk and various findings. Play around with shapes and combinations until desired collage look is achieved. At this point, I took a picture so that I could go back to this arrangement later.

2. Lay out your various findings and disk onto cardboard. Prepare area outside or in well ventilated area for spray painting. Following spray paint directions, apply several coats, letting dry in between each application. Make sure to also flip and paint other side as well. Don't overspray...this may cause puddling on your surfaces.

3. Review your composition on your camera and start reconstructing your arrangement. I applied a little dab of glue to the backs of each finding and placed it onto my wood blank. Depending on how picky you are, you may want to use a toothpick to apply Liquid Fusion or arrange your findings using tweezers. Let dry thoroughly.

4. At this point, I actually sprayed another coat or two of spray all over the piece. I then coated it with a flat matte sealer.

5. Using glue, apply ring blank to back of wood circle and let dry.

6. Yay! You are finished! If you don't want to make a ring (or if this is just a bit too big and too annoying), you can add a pendant bail or pin back instead!